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The Gender Paradigm with Abigail Favale
Life and Books and Everything
The Second Wave of Feminism
In the 1970s, feminism began to adopt that implicit masculine bias where basically femaleness is scapegoated for what oppresses women. So a second wave feminist had this idea. They made this distinction between sex and gender where sex refers to biology. But sex is real and we need to kind of deal with that. That was kind of the second wave view. And then Judith Butler says everything's gender, like sex, even sex itself is gender,. Things gender, and that is an oppressive construct that's put upon us by society. She actually has a very pessimistic view of how much human beings can do that. You can't necessarily overthrow it, but you can kind of constantly contest it
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